Pukulan Pentjak Silat Serak (also Sera) is one style of the silatmartial art. Pencak Silat or Silat (fighting by using techniques of self-defence) is an Asian martial art with roots in the culture of the Malay World. ... Hawaiian State Grappling Championships. ...
If was founded by Bapak (or Pak) Sera who was born in the Gunung Kendang Region and lived in West Java. Map of Java Java (Indonesian, Javanese, and Sundanese: Jawa) is an island of Indonesia, and the site of its capital city, Jakarta. ...
Serak is closely related to other systems of West Javanese Pencak Silat including Cimande and Cikalong. It tends to fight at closer range than these styles.
There are Serak players in Indonesia, Europe and the Americas. Most European and North American practitioners trace their background to the de Thoaurs and de Vries families. Like many, perhaps most, of the early Silat teachers in the West the de Vries and de Thoaurs families were Dutch-Indonesians, forced to leave Indonesia in the upheavals surrounding Independence
Pendekar Bapak Victor DeThouars is the sustenance of Serak®, and the Founder of Tongkat.
Silat Kilap Betawi is practiced under the guidance of the family DeThouars; hormat is given to the family and to the tulen legacy and lineage of Pak Serak® and Mas Djoet, and the lineage of the KunTao that results in the art of the Ratu Duri of the KunLunPai.